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bllas — I hear your son left that
small town and went to the city to
have a larger field for hla efforts
Hiram— Yes and that's what gets
me When Hank was home a two-
acre potato patch was too big a field
for him — Judge
A POTATO KING
If I were a farmer boy or a boy with-
out capital and wanted an early compe-
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toea said Henry Schroedcr the Potato
king of ihe Red River Valley whose etorv
in the John A Salzer Seed Co’e Catalogue
reads atrangcr than a romance
Price Schroeder’e Famoue Ohio bushel
9171 ten bushels $1500
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Very Much So
“My fate hangs on a hair”
“Then you have but a bald proa
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Smile smile beautiful clear whlti
clothes Red Cross Ball Blue American
made therefore beat All grocers Adv
Let France have good mothers ant
ahe will have good aona— Napoleon
LTHOUGH it la only recently
and with reluctance that Eng-
land for the protection of her
shores and ships has (In Imi-
tation of the Germans) resort-
ed to the expedient of sowing
the Straits of Dover and the
North sea with contact mines
all the harbors of the British
isles have been planted' wtth-
submarlne explosive contriv-
ances ever since the beginning
of the war And the same may
be said of the harbors of Germany
But these contrivances for harbor defense’ while
mucb more formidable and dangerous to an enemy
are harmless to friendly ships They are what
are known as “observation mines” and being con-
nected by wire with the shore are set off by the
sending of an electric spark at a moment when a
hostile vessel may happen to be within range of
heir tremendous explosive activities
All the navigable channels of the harbor of
Portsmouth for example are at this moment
guarded by an elaborate system of “mine fields”
which are protected by rapid-fire guns on shore
At nlghf they are under constant watch as well
as by day being swept by huge searchlights
Such mines are hollow spheres of galvanized
Iron three feet in diameter each containing 50))
pounds of guncotton which Is lighter than water
so that they can float They are anchored a few
feet below the surface In a series of lines across
a channel about eighty feet apart In each linn
If an enemy's ship were to succeed by good luck
In getting through one line without being blown
up she could hardly pass another
The area of water surface covered by a mine
field Is laid off (by careful survey) In a checker-
board of Imaginary Bquares This checkerboard la
reproduced on a small scale on a table In an un-
derground casemate on shore which Is part of a
fort Suppose a hostile vessel to approach Two
telescopes are aimed at her from points on shorn
some hundreds of yards apart their lines of sight
crossing of course at the spot where she floats
The telescopes are electrically connected with two
pointers that move on the table Moving with the
telescopes the ends of the pointers meet on the
square corresponding to the one where (over the
mine field) the vessel actually is A button mark-
ed with the number of that square is touched and
bang! — she is "blown sky-high
Small steamers especially equipped tor the pur-
pose are used In the business of planting these
mines and the work being of such great import- (
ance the men who undertake It are highly trained '
Theirs Is a branch of the coast artillery which
does its fighting literally under water and apart
from the mechanical details of their employment
they nrust have a fairly expert acquaintance with
electricity and the chemistry of explosive r
A part of the preliminary work of establishing
a mine field consists tn making soundings The
depths all over the surveyed area having been
ascertained wire ropes are measured off Into cor
responding lengths a heavy leaden sinker (or
anchor) being attached to one end of each and a
mine to the other end By this simple means the
sphere of galvanized iron Is made to float Just
many feet below the surface as may be desired
Recently however 'an Ingenious "automatic an-
chor” has been contrived by which no matter
what the depth exactlv the required submergences
for each submarine may be obtained offhand "
As yet experience tn actual warfare has not
afforded practical demonstration of the usefulness
of such observation mines But of their destruc-
tive power there can be no question Many ex-
periments have been made with them In the blow-
ing up of old hulks and on this side of the water
not long ago a miniature ship of war was Scat-
tered In smithereens at Fort Totten N Y by a
mine of corresponding slzs Ignited by an electric
spark from a distance of a mile and a quarter
From such trials the conclusion has been drawn
that the explosion of a mine containing 600 pounds
of guncotton would at least disable the stoutest
battleship within a radius of 60 feet If It did not
sink her In a "field" defending a harbor channel ’
each row of galvanized Iron spheres Is strung
along one electric cable which la attached to the
sinkers (or anchors) and runs along the bottom
The rows are connected together by a main elec-'
trie cable to which each mine Is joined' by a
branch cable that meets It Just above the anchor
Thus every mine !n the Vfleld” Is under direct
control by the apparatus tn the casemate on shore
The casemate isan underground room llnsd
with concrete snd'contalnlng all the mechanism
for controlling the mine system It la connected
by telephone and otherwise electrically with ths
two observing stations In which are mounted the
telescopes already mentioned for watching hostile
ships ‘ ' '
Sometimes tor the protection of harborn what
re called “electro-contact:! mines are used - They
(re much smaller In size and are common!? ar-
ranged In groups of five or ! which are con-
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nected with each other and with the shore by one
main cable It is only when a current of elec-
tricity la turned on that they become dangerous
under other circumstances they are “dead” anj
harmless But when they are “alive” if a ship
hits them a circuit is automatically closed and the
water Is quickly etrewn with her remains Vari-
ous Ingenious means have been devised for bring-
ing about this closing of the circuit one of them
being a little cup partly filled with mercury
which If tilted by a ehock causes the mercury to
reach a metal bar This does the business and
bang goes the mtne 1
It is interesting just now to consider the fact
that the very first employment of a floating mine
was at the siege of Antwerp by the Spaniards In
1685 The besiegers being able to make little or
no headway In their attacks upon the stout walla
of the city resorted to a novel and unheard-of
Btratagem Loading a ship with a great quantity
of gunpowder they aet her adrirt at a time when
the wind and tide would surely bring her up
against the sea wall and when she wae tolerably
close two men on board of her ignited a pre
' vtously arranged fuse
The Idea worked out however In a way not
at all tn accordance with the plan contemplated
For the sturdy burghers of Antwerp repaired the
damage done to the wall by the explosion before
the besiegers could take advantage of tt and
adopting the suggestion offered them by the en-
emy sent out a similar gunpowder boat under full
sail against the Spanish fleet and blew up one of
their biggest ships
In recent news dispatches a good deal has been
said about the use of mines on land for the oppor-
tune blowing up of bridges or approaches to forth -flcatlons
while the enemy was passing over them
By such means whole regiments are said to have
been annihilated The expedient Is by no means
new but the methods adopted are of up-to-date '
and superior Ingenuity
Suppose for example that a piece of road Is cn
be mined The Infernal machine la concealed from
view by spreading over It a few Inches of earth
In consists In part of a small electric battery
provided with two wires one of which communi-
cates with a receptacle containing a large quantity
of high explosive wbtle the other runs to an ar-
rangement called a “springboard" When a man
'or horse steps on the springboard a piece of metal
beneath the latter la brought Into contact with a
projecting pin thereby completing a circuit which
ignites a fuse
The same-idea is easily applied to a bridge
in the case of a fort a system of more sclentlfio
ally constructed mines may render every approach
a waiting volcano a switchboard Inside the de-
fenses enabling the besieged to explode them at
the moment when they are likely to kill the great-
'eat number of men '
In modern warfare wholesale killing takes the
place of the old-fashioned military murder by re-
tail Doubtless as time goes on “Improvements”
tn this direction will steadily progress The Brit-
i Ish and Oermans have both been experimenting
-with- means iwhereby (It Is hoped) submarine
- ' mines may be bet off by wireless apparatus They
are also trying to contrive a submarine “fish tor-
pedo” (resembling the Whitehead) which can be
v steered from shore to attack a hostile ship per-
’ haps miles from land
Then Whitehead Is ait Englishman's Invention
AndMa the only kind Of fish torpedo used In the
British navy Oddly enough the similar devil’s
contrivance used by the Germans Is called (after
Its originator) the Schwartzkopf — meaning Black-
head They differ only in minor details being
shaped In Imitation of the porpoise and fired from
tubes by charges of compressed air
The typical up-to-date torpedo of this descrip-
tion is really a submarine boat In miniature It
Is a steel cylinder 15 feet long with a conic
attachable nose called a “war-head” which con-
tains 200 pounds of high explosive The main
body la a chamber holding air at a pressure of
2000 pounds to the square Inch 'This air pressure
runs the machinery In the rear part of the cylln
der which actuates a pair of propellers
The steel fish travels through the water at
speed of 40 miles an hour It can be discharged
at a target with as much accuracy aa a bullet fired
from a gun Pursuing Its course at a depth of 15
feet below the surface so aa to strike beneath
the armor of a warship tt Is kept automatically at
that depth by an Ingenious little rudder which
turns up If the nose of the torpedo attempts to
point downward or vise versa Inside the cylinder
Is a gyroscope which Is started spinning and
pointed at the target before the submarine projec-
tile Is discharged Thus if It tends to turn either
to right or left It Is promply brought back Into
line
- Until within the last few weeks very little was
known through practical experience of the effec-
tiveness of the submarine torpedo aa a weapon of
war It has even surpassed expectations The
cost of one of these terrible projectiles Is about
91600 but Inasmuch as one of them la easily
capable of destroying a battleship valued at 10-
000000 they may be said to be well worth the
money
THE NEW JOKER
“Well I see the war Is' all over" announced a
fellow who was trying to be a contributor
“What do you mean all over?” replied the fel-
low he brought along with him as a feeder
“All over Europe!” cried the original comedian
with a shriek of laughter
THE CAUSE
“Cholly has a swelled head”
"There la one thing only which with reason
could give that idiot a swelled head”
“And what might that be?”
"A good punching”
HEARD IN A BARBER SHOP
Barber (shaving customer)— Do you know that
when the edge of a rasor la examined under a
microscope It has teeth like those of a saw?
Tortured Victim— I don’t need a microscope to
know that
nod D n Q Q
Compromise
I You must conquer Stomach Ills
I at once if you would retain the
(controlling power in health mat-
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lAppetite' Indigestion Bilious-
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Grippe soon undermine your
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TRY IT
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8ome Hint
’‘Hello Blank! Where are you go-
ing in such a hurry?"
“To the post office to put up a kick
about the wretched delivery service”
“What’s the trouble?”
“Why that check you promised to
send me ten days ago hasn't reached
me yet”
Wounds cleansed by Hanford's Bal-
sam Adv " -
Language was given us that we
might say pleasant things to each oth-
er — Bovee
Don’t Give Up!
Nowadays deaths due to weak kldoerg
I are 72 more common than 2- years ago
nocordlng to the c-nauz Overwork and
worry are the causes The kidneys ean’t
leep up aiida slight kidney weakness
is usually neglected
If you hare backache or urinary dls-
orders dou’t mistake the cauwe Fight
the danger More care as to diet habits
etc and the use of Doan’s Kidney Fills
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A Kansas Casa
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